OIL ON SEA MAY BE CAUSE OF ENGLAND’S WEATHER.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney Sun ” Cable. (Received June 19. 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. The “Daily Mail,” approving of an international conference being held in Washington to deal with oilships' pollution of the. sea, points out that the oil discharged annually amounts to half a million barrels. Scarcely a town on the British coast has not suffered therefrom. There are now ineagre catches of fish where formerly there were abundant. It is also argued that the film of oil is responsible for climatic changes by affecting the rainfall and the balance of electricity in the atmosphere. The theory seems far fetched, but since oil has generally been used, there have been a series of bad weather years in Britain, although this may be due to the usual periodical fluctuations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17877, 19 June 1926, Page 9
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138OIL ON SEA MAY BE CAUSE OF ENGLAND’S WEATHER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17877, 19 June 1926, Page 9
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